Figures for the ghost
Subtitle: poems
By: by Scott Cairns.
Series: The contemporary poetry series; Contemporary poetry series (University of Georgia Press)
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: Christian poetry, American.
Description: In Figures for the Ghost, Scott Cairns offers postmodern meditations on the problems of epistemology, interpretation and belief. The collection is distinguished by its implicit proposition that uncertainty (or decenteredness) is a pleasurable state. "In their gestures and in their intent, the poems are religious," says Cairns, "but honestly so. Skirting didacticism, they perform a willing trajectory into the unknown."